The silence of the evening was disturbed only by the rhythmic ticking of the clock. Mr. Evans sat at his desk, staring at the small, leather-bound journal. It was from Olivia, the girl who had called him “a washed-up has-been” after he'd failed to get her into the top university.

He thought back on the endless hours he had spent trying to help her. He thought about the sneering faces. The dismissive words.

He threw the journal across the room.

Emotion: hateful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.71 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hateful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.553
S0.367
retali0.313
aggravated0.310
0.308
Suppressed:
la-0.334
own-0.310
optimistic-0.270
been-0.264
gradual-0.262